storminnateacup:

“The ceramic figurine has historically embodied a mainstream, bourgeois ideology, & for this reason, I have employed it in the presentation of an alternative vision, an ironic anti-figurine, or ‘disfigurine’. In the ‘disfigurine’ series, physical wounds such as bruises & lacerations serve as metaphors for psychological harm. Whereas the figurine has historically represented the dominant culture’s norms & ideals, the disfigurines speak of the damage inflicted by those very same expectations.” - Justin Novak.

(via misschiquita)